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In the video Craig wrote "insert exit code" in a comment. Why did he do that?

I thought that a comment was for making notes for yourself, or other programmers and not for coding. So why was "inserted exit code" written in the comment?

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Alexander Nikiforov
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Alexander Nikiforov
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Alexander Nikiforov
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You should put comment when "making notes for yourself, or other programmers" or when looking by code it is not easy to understand what code is doing, you are right about that.

In that particular case, he just wanted for you to know what is going on. It is like writing a purpose first, and then write a code.

Also consider that as a hint. If you want to try coding yourself, you can pause video, and try to write the code yourself, then press play and check how Craig did.

This way you can practice more and check. You will see a lot of comments like this in a numerous courses to come.

I suggest you do just that : that helped me a lot.